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IT Asset Management: A Pocket Survival Guide
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IT Asset Management: A Pocket Survival Guide

by Martyn Hobbs
August 2011
Intermediate to advanced
58 pages
52m
English
IT Governance Publishing
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CHAPTER 4: LICENSED TO BILL

What are the challenges?

•   What do I do if I’m told software licence compliance is a priority?

•   The last thing I want is to have to pay a huge bill, but will it be worth the effort?

There’s a great quote from the author Rudyard Kipling which starts:

‘If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you …’

The point of the quote is to suggest that keeping yourself calm in a situation where you are surrounded by chaos means that you have a level of maturity beyond that of most people. I much prefer this version from a popular comedian that goes a little like this:

‘If you can keep your head when all around you have lost theirs, then you probably haven’t understood the seriousness ...

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